14. Local Area Networks

The characteristics of the wireless and local area networks (LAN) are
inherently different from those of point-to-point links. A network
consisting of multiple point-to-point links cannot capture the sharing
and contention properties of a LAN. To simulate these properties, we
created a new type of a Node, called LanNode. The OTcl
configurations and interfaces for LanNode reside in the following
two files in the main ns directory: